This book follows Chagall's life through his art and his understanding of the role of the artist as a political being.

1. The Story of a Life 1. Life in Vitebsk 2. St. Petersburg and Paris 3. Return to Russia and Belarus 4. In Paris to World War II 5. New York during World War II 6. Late Life: Other Art Forms and Large Works 7. Stained Glass Windows 2. The Artist as Friend and Peacemaker 8. Who Was Chagall? 9. The "Jewish" Chagall 10. Ethnic Labeling 11. Wandering in Multiple Places 12. The Artist as a Friend and Companion 13. The Artist as Post-Secular Seeker 14. The Painter as Peacemaker 3. Appendices: Texts by Chagall 15. Artists and Jewish Artists (April 1939) 16. To My City Vitebsk (February (1944) 17. The End of the War (May 1948) 18. To Israel: On My Exhibition in Tel Aviv (July 1951) 19. Art and Life: Lecture Delivered at The University of Chicago (March 1958) 20. Erasmus Prize; Response (1960) 21. A Crisis of Color (May 1963) 22. The Tapestries in the Knesset in Jerusalem; Speech at the Unveiling (August 1969)